Tip for webbing



A. V BROWN.

TIP FOR WEBBING.

APPLICATION mso saw. 23, 1921.

Patented June 27,1922.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed September 23, 1921. Serial to. 502,633.11 j

To all whomz't may concern:

Be it known that I, ARNOLD V. BROWN, a citizen of the United States,residingat Oak Park, county of Cook, State of Illinois, have invented acertain new and useful Improvement in Tips for Webbing, and declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact .de-

scription of thesame, such as will'enable others skilled in the art towhich'it ,per-

tains to make and usev the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, which form a part of this specification.

My invention has for its object to produce a simple and novel expedientwhereby the free end of a piece of webbing may be engaged to a buckle orthe like without the necessity of stitching the webbing, the engagementbeing a detachable one and being readily made,

The various features of novelty wherebymy invention is characterizedwill hereinafter be pointed out with particularity in the claims; but,for a full understanding of my invention and of its object andadvantages, reference may be had to the following detailed descriptiontaken in connection with the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is a rear elevation of a piece of webbing such as used in hosesupporters and the like, connected to a buckle in accordance with myinvention;

Fig. 2 is a section on an enlarged scale, taken approximately on line 22of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the metal binding piece for the webbing;

Fig. 4 is a rear view of the free end of a piece of webbing havingthereon a binding and attaching element somewhat different from thatshown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3;

Fig. 5 is a section taken approximately on line 5--5 of Fig. 4;

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the free end of a piece of webbinghaving thereon still another form of attaching device; and

Fig. 7 is a view similar to Fig. 6, showing still another modification.

Referring to the drawing, 1 represents the back plate of any usual orsuitable form of buckle through which a piece of webbing, 2, is adaptedto pass. In accordance with my invention I place on the free end of thewebbing a metal element which may serve both as a binding for the rawedge and as a clip detachably to connect the said free end of thewebbing to the back plate of the buckle. In thearrangement 'shown inFigs. 1 to '8, the attaching means consists of a plate ofsheet metalfolded on itself'alo'ng the longitudinal center'line so as to form aU-shaped trough open at the. ends." One of the walls,i 3., of. thetrough'is provided with teeth or "prongs, 4, struck inwardly therefrom.The free 'endof the'fwebbing is placed in the trough, the sides an d 5of which LTZGLthQH1C1OSQdi together so. as to cause the teeth orprongsto penetrate the webbing and fasten the metal piece to the webbing. Inclamping the metal piece upon the webbing the long free edge of the wall5 is preferably left spaced apart slightly from the adjacent face of thewebbing so that when the webbing is threaded through the buckle, thelower edge of the back plate, 1., may be inserted between the wall 5 andthe adjacent surface of the webbing, as shown in Fig. 2; themetal clipthus serving as a broad flat hook. Then when the webbing is passed overthe top of the back plate and carried down in rear thereof, the pullupon the free end of the webbing is in a direction tending to draw thehook more tightly upon the back plate.

In Figs. 4 and 5, I have shown an arrangement in which an elongatedclip, 6, U-shaped in cross section, is clamped firmly upon the free endof the webbing, two prongs or fingers, 7 being struck up from the endsof the clip to form hooks adapted to engage with the lower edge of theback member of the buckle. 1

In the arrangement shown in Fig. 6, the attaching clip consists of awire, 8, extending transversely across the webbing near the free end ofthe latter, the ends of the wire passe ing through the webbing and thendownwardly as indicated at 9; while the extreme ends of the wires arebent upwardly to form books, 10, which, when the webbing is threadedthrough the buckle, engage with the lower edge of the back plate.

In Fig. 7 the clip is also made of wire, the same consisting of a crossbar, 11, having the ends bent downwardly and then upwardly to formU-shaped seats, 12, the extreme ends of the wire extending upwardlybeyond the cross bar and, after passing through the webbing, being bentdownwardly as indicated at 13 so as to fasten the wire firmly to thewebbing. When the webbing is threaded through the buckle the cross bar,11,lies in rear. of'the back plate while the lower edge of the latterrests in the seats 12.

It will thus be seen thatin each ofthe forms of my invention disclosed,the necessity of sewing the free end of the webbing to the buckle or ofstitching it for any other purpose, is avoided. Furthermore, a savlng ofwebbing results from thefact that the webbing need not be folded aroundthe lower cross bar of the back plate. In each instance, the metalclipis attached to the webbing. before the latter is placed in thebuckle, the attachment constituting an eX- ceeding simple operation; andthe operation of fastening the free end of the webbing to the buckle islikewise a simple one requiring no appreciable time for itsconsummation.

While Ihave illustrated and described with particularity only a fewforms which my invention may take, I do not desire to be limited to theexact structural details thus illustrated and described; but intend tocover 'all forms and arrangements which come within the terms employedin the cation. 7

ARNOLD V. BROWN.

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